About Me

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Mods and Rockers by Photographer ~ Horst A. Friedrichs

Horst A. Friedrichs was born in Frankfurt in 1966. He began his career at the age of seventeen, working as a photo-assistant in a photography studio in Frankfurt. After he studied at the Munich Academy of Photography he has worked as freelance photo-journalist for numerous American, British and German publications including The New York Times, The Independent, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, Merian and Geo.
His documentary photography has taken him around the world and four of his ongoing projects have been made into books. The first “Troubadours of Allah” was published in 1999 and explored the musical culture of Sufis in Pakistan. In 2006, “Doña Maria and Her Dreams” followed the lives and stories of a desert community in Venezuela. Continuing to focus on communities and music, “Mali – A Magical Journey” was published by Frederking & Thaler in 2008 and was the result of an invitation to explore Mali by the celebrated Kora musician Toumani Diabaté.
Horst moved to London in 1997 to begin another long-term project on the contemporary British Mod scene. The results of this project were realised in “I’m One – 20th-century Mods” published by Prestel in 2009.
He has shot and directed two short films, “Blood Red Sea”, in 2004 about the slaughter of Japanese dolphins and in 2006 “Dona Maria and her dreams”, a film to accompany that book.
His work has been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Greece, Morocco and the United Kingdom.
In 2008 he received a prestigious Gold Lead award for best documentary photography, for his article in Geo magazine No. 3 entitled, “A hundred years of solitude”.
Since 2005 he has been represented by the Anzenberger Agency in Vienna. He lives in London with his wife Adriana and daughter Greta.